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From: cjs@cynic.portal.ca (Curt Sampson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.internals
Subject: Re: Solaris 2.6
Date: 5 Dec 1996 08:39:47 -0800
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In article <5869r2$175$1@asgard.sprintlink.co.za>,
philip Shearer <philips@asiatech.co.za> wrote:
> Marco S Hyman <marc@dumbcat.codewright.com> writes:
> 
> >Stage 1:
> >Keep long 32 bits but now with 64 bit pointers so you can catch every
> >program that assumes a pointer can be stored in a long or int.
>
>I don't see why anyone needs to store pointers as ints or longs
>store the them as pointers.

And how does one align a pointer if one can't store and manipulate
it in a non-pointer type?

I would expect that most common Unix and Unix-like systems would
be quite difficult to port to a system in which pointers were larger
than any other integral data type.

cjs
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